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...cites. Though she gives the four-year rule of the mujahideen a close look, the real crux of the book is the Taliban as it ascends and eventually falls at the hands of US troops.Her story of the early Taliban paints a nuanced picture of an organization founded to combat lawlessness and disorder in a country being torn apart by the US-backed mujahideen. Mullah Mohammed Omar, the founder of the Taliban and ultimately the man who imposed the harsh religious law for which the Taliban became infamous, had fought against the Soviet Union in the 1980s with forces President...
...childhood in Ireland amidst family stories of British oppression imbue her conclusions with a unique authority. Despite its strong foundation, though, “What Terrorists Want” strays from its persuasive path and succumbs to a political blame-game once Richardson offers recommendations on how to combat terrorism today. Nevertheless, “What Terrorists Want” remains valuable because of its personalized yet scholarly contextualization of the seemingly unprecedented terrorist activity that has defined contemporary American politics.The vocabulary of terrorism entered the American lexicon overnight, but while “fatwa...
...chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations next January. On Nov. 30, E.C. President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will visit New Delhi for the annual E.U.-India summit, a bilateral confab to discuss investment, scientific cooperation and efforts to combat climate change. The participants are expected to announce a joint solar energy project and the formation of a European Business and Technology Centre in Delhi...
...expected early next year, because of the well-oiled political machine of the governing National Front, which has dominated the country since independence. Yet the 68-year-old PM's tenure is dogged by the same ills - alleged graft, inefficiency, ethnic and religious rivalry - that he had promised to combat. Questions about Abdullah's leadership came to the fore earlier this year when his deputy, Najib Razak, stunned the country by defining Malaysia as an Islamic state, going so far as to say the country had never been secular. (The nation's constitution is unclear about the issue, stating both...
Sheehan, who worked with Halberstam while covering the Vietnam War, spoke on Halberstam’s bravery in combat and the stature it afforded him among soldiers. “If you go into the battlefield with them, you become a comrade, and that lasts you all your life,” he said...